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Right here.
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New Orleans
Not at all. It is the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything.
Everyone knows that. Well, probobly not Vogons, but still.
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ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ
I like this one.
In the tradition I follow "God" is called ᎤᏁᎳᏅᎯ unelanvhi with roughly translates into Apportioner or Provider. It has also been translated as the one who gave all. it is conjugated in various ways and acts much like a verb linguistically.
Personally for me, ᎤᏁᎳᏅᎯ is all of Creation and then some; everything, nothing, anything possible and what is assumed to be impossible, a Paradox. I am a Panentheist/Animist/Animatist/Agnostic. I think.
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ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ
ᎣᎦᏚᏩᎩ Traditional and communal Cherokee Spirituality
ᏩᏕ ᎦᎵᏍᎨᏫ;529773 said:
I gathered from what you were saying that you might be Native American. Very interesting.
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A being believed to have more than natural attributes and powers and to require human worship.
Regarding polytheistic religions, one controlling a particular aspect or part of reality.
For monotheistic faiths, it is by definition the Being, perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness who is worshipped as creator and ruler of the universe.
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ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ
I like your definition. I had not really thought of it in those terms. It seems to me that your definition would certainly disqualify my own interpretation.
We dont really even have words for worship or supernatural in Cherokee.
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3rd rock from Sol
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San Francisco CA area.
A Belief Possition.
There are many definitions of God. I do not have a personal definition.
I do have a belief position, which is :
I believe there is something I do not Know.
To fill it out a little, I also express it this way :
When known
it is small.
There is comfort
at not to know.
I have encountered people that interpret this belief as Agnosticism.
It is not equivalent to Agnosticism. Agnosticism is a negative state-
ment -- one does not know. This position is a positive statement.
One does believe something and it is qualified as being unknown.
There are many definitions of God. I do not have a personal definition.
I do have a belief position, which is :
I believe there is something I do not Know.
To fill it out a little, I also express it this way :
When known
it is small.
There is comfort
at not to know.
I have encountered people that interpret this belief as Agnosticism.
It is not equivalent to Agnosticism. Agnosticism is a negative state-
ment -- one does not know. This position is a positive statement.
One does believe something and it is qualified as being unknown.
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ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ
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3rd rock from Sol
ᏩᏕ ᎦᎵᏍᎨᏫ;529844 said:
You mean God as 'she'?
Well I dont picture God as a being..... a 'He' or 'She'.... No!
I consider the greatest force of this world- natural intelligence (nature's force etc etc) to be God....
For example.....
DNA is damn advanced..... well only an intelligent 'force' behind this could do it.... i believe this force to be scattered across the Universe..... This God is everywhere..... Nature's Force.....
This philosophy is similar to Hinduism's 'Brahman Philosophy' or 'Hinduism's Ultimate Entity'....
the beauty of nature is God....
[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman]Brahman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
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ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ
No offense intended. Just a personification of affectionate regard; re: my own post earlier in the thread, I’m sure we are of comparable mindset.You mean God as 'she'?
Well I dont picture God as a being..... a 'He' or 'She'.... No!
I consider the greatest force of this world- natural intelligence (nature's force etc etc) to be God....
For example.....
DNA is damn advanced..... well only an intelligent 'force' behind this could do it.... i believe this force to be scattered across the Universe..... This God is everywhere..... Nature's Force.....
This philosophy is similar to Hinduism's 'Brahman Philosophy' or 'Hinduism's Ultimate Entity'....
the beauty of nature is God....
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"God" is a catch-all. It is a word that means essentially nothing because it can be made to mean essentially anything. It is an inkblot. A Rorschach test.
It is an "ohm", a shared pattern of vibrations that allow people of massively diverging beliefs to, for a brief moment, bask in an illusion of solidarity as they share in it.
Mostly, it is a mirror. A construct which, in the describing of, people reveal their own innermost selves.
It is an "ohm", a shared pattern of vibrations that allow people of massively diverging beliefs to, for a brief moment, bask in an illusion of solidarity as they share in it.
Mostly, it is a mirror. A construct which, in the describing of, people reveal their own innermost selves.
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ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ
That could be either poetry or scripture. I would assume you intended neither.
I think you allude to the most positive potential embodied in the concept of god.
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Right here.
I believe that man has created God, not the other way around. Over time as our understanding of how the world and nature work improves, our "gods", myths and legends have become more and more sophisticated.
As we learn more and more, only the more complex and difficult questions are what remain and we require a "god" that coresponds with that increase in complexity.
The more we know, the more complex we require our god to be. This continues to the point where we are presently and God is 'unknowable'.
...or not. Just sayin'
As we learn more and more, only the more complex and difficult questions are what remain and we require a "god" that coresponds with that increase in complexity.
The more we know, the more complex we require our god to be. This continues to the point where we are presently and God is 'unknowable'.
...or not. Just sayin'
G-d is an incomplete concept ill thought out by those who constructed it and now used merrily by those that wish to do themselves better either through beneficence or malevolence.
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